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A podcast about nomadism and nomadic peoples, around the world and throughout history.
The Political Ecology of Violence: Peasants and Pastoralists in the Last Ottoman Century
Nomads, Past and Present
54 minutes
10 months ago
The Political Ecology of Violence: Peasants and Pastoralists in the Last Ottoman Century
From the nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries, recurrent and extreme climate disruptions became an underlying yet unacknowledged component of escalating conflict between Christian Armenian peasants and Muslim Kurdish pastoralists in Ottoman Kurdistan. By the eve of the First World War, the Ottoman state's shifting responses to these mounting tensions transformed the conflict into organized and state-sponsored violence.
In her book The Political Ecology of Violence: Peasants and Pastoralists in the Last Ottoman Century (University of Cambridge Press, 2024), Dr. Zozan Pehlivan examines the impact of climate on local communities, their responses and resilience strategies, arguing that nineteenth-century ecological change had a transformative and antagonistic impact on economy, state, and society.
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Nomads, Past and Present
A podcast about nomadism and nomadic peoples, around the world and throughout history.
